This discussion will focus on Standard Bus Procurement Guidelines and the status of the Standard Light Rail Vehicle Procurement Guidelines. You will hear thoughts from the FTA agency representation and business members.

10:15AM

11:45AM

FTA Update – Hot Topics

A representative from the FTA will provide an update on federal programs. Updates will include Buy America, Title VI, ARRA and TIGGER funding. Also a discussion regarding updates to the Best Practices Manual and responses to submitted questions regarding FTA policies/procedures

12:00PM

1:45AM

Vendor Showcase and Lunch

This Event is at the Convention Center

2:00PM

3:30PM

Vendor Managed Inventory

Presentation by SEPTA on their vendor managedinventory program. Presentation to include SEPTA staff that created, procured and is running this program along with one or more of the selected vendors - How they did it and how it works.

4:00PM

5:30AM

DBE 2010 Challenges and Changes-Are you ready

Hyatt

Is your agency keeping up-to-date with the challenges that have been made to transit DBE programs? How do FTA’s new DBE proposals affect your agency? Do you involve your DBE’s in your agency’s goal setting process? This session will provide you with the latest information on DBE issues and best practices as well as new resources that transit agencies can draw upon to strengthen and improve their DBE efforts.

APTA Business Members invite you to attend this general session. Our guest speaker, Malcolm Gladwell, a New York Times bestseller author, has an incomparable gift for interpreting new ideas in the social sciences and making them understandable, practical and valuable to business and general audiences alike. He is the bestselling author of four books and staff writer with The New Yorker magazine. His books include The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers: The Story of Success. Mr. Gladwell’s has become so successful at this that, in 2005, Time Magazine named Malcolm one of its 100 Most Influential People.

10:30AM

12:00PM

Procurement Systems Review - Getting Ready

Description - One approach that the FTA utilizes in monitoring compliance with FTA Circular 4220.1F, Third Party Contracting Guidelines is the Procurement Systems Review. It is a rigorous review related to all aspects of the procurement process at an agency. This session will: 1) describe the reasons behind the need for compliance; 2) provide a description of how a Review is conducted and what are some of the most common findings reported; 3) describe how an Agency can maintain its readiness for an FTA visit; and 4) learn how an Agency can develop useful tools and checklists for their procurement organization.

2:00PM

3:30PM

Bonding – What it does and doesn’t do for a Public Agency

This will be a panel discussion o the types of bonds typically used for vehicle procurements and service contracts, including operating services contracts. Levels of bonds and selecting the correct bonding level. Finally, the issue of what happens in the event of a default will be covered.

3:45PM

5:15PM

Evaluating Negotiated Procurements

This will be a joint session with the participants of the Bus Technical Workshop. It will be cover the presentations given in San Diego by LACMTA but will be a “practical” session. There will be exercises using ATLP and Explicit Factors (numbers). A brief discussion will also cover “Best Value.” The exercises can either focus on developing evaluation criteria and/or on how to perform an evaluation.